DRIVING INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

Thinking of a career change? Want more freedom to choose your own working hours? Are you currently earning around £22.00 per hour?

Independence Driving Centre are the North West’s and North Wales largest independent driver training Company:

What About After Passing?

If you take our training we Guarantee after pass Placement if required. With IDC you do not need to worry about additional expense we provide the following:

Many of our training courses are eligible for Government sponsorship that will pay towards all or part of your training costs subject to your criteria and availability, and you can go to our ‘Funding’ page or call our free advice line 0800 298 3012 for assistance.

To become a driving instructor you need to meet the following requirements:

To access the Independence Driving Centre training facility the following is required;

There are three examinations to pass in order to become an ADI, however after completing Parts 1 & 2 you may apply for a Provisional Driving Instructor (PDI) licence.

• Part 1 - Theory and Hazard Perception examination
• Part 2 - Your driving skills, the practical examination
• Part 3a - The 40 hours mandatory training required to obtain a PDI licence.

Once you have completed the above training you may legally deliver driving lessons for a fee. You will be operating on a PDI licence which is valid for a period of six months. You will be expected to receive training whilst on this licence (Part 3b training) in order to take the most difficult of the three examinations, the teaching qualification.

You are allowed as many attempts at the Part 1 examination until you pass, and you must then pass your Part 3 examination within 2 years of your Part 1 pass date. You are allowed only three attempts at your Parts 2 & 3 examinations, if you fail your third attempt at Part 3 you must start the whole training programme again. You can only start your second attempt from the second year anniversary of passing your Part 1 examination.

Why choose Independence Driving Centre to Become a Driving Instructor?

It is important that you choose the right training Company to enroll on an ADI training course. There are many that are ‘sales’ companies, and providing you can pay they will allow you to enroll whether or not you have the ability to pass.

Our advice is to look around and ask the right questions before committing.

Ken and Alan of IDC.

Some of these companies tie you to a CDL (Career Development Loan) or a finance agreement, and YES you may not have to start repayments until you have started employment as an instructor... and YES you will still have to make the repayments even if you do NOT make it to become an instructor.

There are some people that do not make it passed Part 1 however have paid for all three elements of the training and we have not heard of a company that will give refunds. This means that should you not complete all sections of your training you may end up with a bill for around £3,000.

Independence Driving Centre allow you to pay only for the elements of training you are undertaking, so you can pay for Part 1, pass, and then pay for Part 2 and so on, this safeguards your money.

All students training with Independence Driving Centre are guaranteed employment (as a membership) on completion of their examinations. The earning potential as an instructor with Independence Driving Centre is detailed below.

How much can I realistically earn as a driving instructor?

There are many companies who will try and encourage you to join there Company with the promise of high earning, and pie in the sky promises, Independence Driving Centre will tell you how it is really and give you the true facts.

The best way of explaining the industry is as follows;
You would expect to pay a high price for a suit from Saville Row, and not so much for a suit from Oxfam. The Saville Row of the driving school industry would normally be referred to as AA and BSM. In most cases, and for a variety of reasons, you would pay the higher price for an hour’s lesson than from other competitors in your area.

Independence Driving Centre market themselves just below the top end of the market and our lesson price is normally around 10% less than AA and BSM. In September 2008, our average lesson price that the instructor receives would be £22.00, and so if you work a 30 hour week, which is realistic, you would earn £660 per week before costs. Most other companies would show you an equation with 45 hours per week, which you could do, however it is HARD work, but of course the more hours you work the more income you can earn.

At the time of printing, the membership fee that you would pay from your earnings is £80.00+VAT per week, with your own vehicle.

There are some schools that will charge you less membership fee each week, but two things you should check out first, what is the average per hour they are earning? and what level of hours are you working each week?. There are many instructors who defect to Independence Driving Centre because they are with a company that takes 70% of their earnings every week.

How much does it cost to become a driving instructor?

We currently have students enrolled on our course from a variety of other facilities, and this is after they have paid out up to £3,000 to these companies for their training, you should ask yourself WHY?

To enrol on our course we offer a FREE assessment, and this is not a round the block drive telling you how great you are and how much money you are going to earn. It is only when we have the opinion that you have a good chance to pass to become an instructor will we allow you to enrol at our training facility. We do not charge for this assessment. To arrange an assessment call 0800 298 3012.